xXCrocmonXx:He is dead. Not coming back. Snap from your fantasy world: he is a Spartan, and all the Spartans in the story have died except for the ones on Onyx, and they're as good as gone because they are just going to procreate in that shield world while the rest of the galaxy struggles to recover from the Human-Covenant War.
=/ Why don't people know how to seperate quotes? It's not hard and it makes everything so much easier to read...
And second. You don't seem to get it. 343 can make up anything they want, you can say certain things aren't possible or implausible, but it doesn't matter if 343 gives an explanation as to how he was found.
We could sit here and come up with all of the reasons he's dead and it won't do anything because they will do thing to continue this story. The impracticalities of the story are nothing when 343 could say a scouting ship picked up the beacon Cortana dropped. Or even that the Precursors stepped in and took Mater Chief back. Practical solution? No. Possible solution? Yes.
Not to mention galaxies are celestial bodies and as a result they have gravity so unless Chief is somewhere in the middle of nowhere he will be pulled back. Depending on the distance will give us the time. And since our portion of the solar system already exists on one of the outer arms of the galaxy it is not totally impossible for a UNSC or Covenant ship to be at the extremities of the galaxy itself.
The story of Chief's survival is not a matter of if, it's a matter of how.
"Die?"Kurt laughed."Didn't you know?"he told the Elite. "...Spartans never die."